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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Interior Scene with Figures
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interior Scene with Figures Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1930's Signed with the Estate stamp lower center Condition: Loss upper right corner; two small tears lower margin ...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

1950s "Star Ear" Mid Century Figurative Drawing University of Paris
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Star Ear" c.1950s Ink on paper Black wood frame 9.75"x17.25 Signed lower right in pencil Came from artist estate This striking piece of art is an original drawing by r...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

'Standing Nude', Whitney Museum of Art, Bohemian Club, Oakland Museum, Art Deco
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Willard Cox' (American, 1902-1974) and painted circa 1935. Board dimensions: 18.75 x 12.5 inches. An elegant, Art Deco period figural watercolor showing a young woman with bobbed hair standing with her hand resting on the back of a bent-wood chair. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Willard Cox moved to San Francisco where he shared a studio with Maurice Logan...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles". Unsigned and undated. Matting included. Very good conditions. Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957. 
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

"Chorus Girl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a chorus or show girl by Ruth Adele Mysel. Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New England School of Art. She was both a artist and sculptor as well as ...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso) Watercolor on heavy textured paper, 1938 Signed in ink verso image of Two Figures, unsigned ...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Roman Dances and Songs - Original Charcoal And Pencil Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Dances and Songs is an original modern artwork realized by an Anonymous Italian painter in the middle of the XIX Century. Original Drawing on paper: charcoal and pencil on iv...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pencil

Red Pillow, mixed media pastel acrylic charcoal drawing of female figure, nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently discovered 1984 oversize pastels on archival papers were created with a live model, working quickly, mostly in pastel. The series show...
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1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Pastel

Trees - Original Drawing in Pencil and Charcoal - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Trees is an original drawing in pencil and charcoal, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good and aged with some fold...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pencil

Laurence Dunn: The Emperor and Grosvenor coastal tramp ships watercolour
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. We also have several more ship drawings...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Line Drawing of a Nude Woman by Antoniucci Volti, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Antoniucci Volti (French, 1915-1989) Untitled, 1969 Ink on paper 11 x 14 3/4 in. (each panel) Signed: Volti Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in there until 1920 when the family moved to France to stay. Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen. After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed. From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris. He died in Paris in 1989 Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Antoniucci Volti is one of the most important Late Modern sculptors...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Chalk

Modern Watercolour Stained Glass Window Design by Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of works from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
Located in New York, NY
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book This drawing was published in the 1976 edition of William Saroyan's SONS ...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Board

Black Panther Trials - Civil Rights Movement Police Violence African American
Located in Miami, FL
The Black Panther Trials - In this historically significant work, African American Artist Vicent D. Smith functions as an Art Journalist/ Court Reporter as much as a Artist. Here, he depicts, in complete unity, 21 Black Panther Protestors raising their fist of defiance at the White Judge. Smith's composition is about utter simplicity, where the Black Panther Protestors are symmetrically lined up in a confrontation with a Judge whose size is exaggerated in scale. Set against a stylized American Flag, the supercilious Judge gazes down as the protesters as their fists thrust up. Signed Vincent lower right. Titled Panter 21. Original metal frame. Tape on upper left edge of frame. 255 . Panther 21. Framed under plexi. _____________________________ From Wikipedia In 1969-1971 there was a series of criminal prosecutions in New Haven, Connecticut, against various members and associates of the Black Panther Party.[1] The charges ranged from criminal conspiracy to first-degree murder. All charges stemmed from the murder of 19-year-old Alex Rackley in the early hours of May 21, 1969. The trials became a rallying-point for the American Left, and marked a decline in public support, even among the black community, for the Black Panther Party On May 17, 1969, members of the Black Panther Party kidnapped fellow Panther Alex Rackley, who had fallen under suspicion of informing for the FBI. He was held captive at the New Haven Panther headquarters on Orchard Street, where he was tortured and interrogated until he confessed. His interrogation was tape recorded by the Panthers.[2] During that time, national party chairman Bobby Seale visited New Haven and spoke on the campus of Yale University for the Yale Black Ensemble Theater Company.[3] The prosecution alleged, but Seale denied, that after his speech, Seale briefly stopped by the headquarters where Rackley was being held captive and ordered that Rackley be executed. Early in the morning of May 21, three Panthers – Warren Kimbro, Lonnie McLucas, and George Sams, one of the Panthers who had come East from California to investigate the police infiltration of the New York Panther chapter, drove Rackley to the nearby town of Middlefield, Connecticut. Kimbro shot Rackley once in the head and McLucas shot him once in the chest. They dumped his corpse in a swamp, where it was discovered the next day. New Haven police immediately arrested eight New Haven area Black Panthers. Sams and two other Panthers from California were captured later. Sams and Kimbro confessed to the murder, and agreed to testify against McLucas in exchange for a reduction in sentence. Sams also implicated Seale in the killing, telling his interrogators that while visiting the Panther headquarters on the night of his speech, Seale had directly ordered him to murder Rackley. In all, nine defendants were indicted on charges related to the case. In the heated political rhetoric of the day, these defendants were referred to as the "New Haven Nine", a deliberate allusion to other cause-celebre defendants like the "Chicago Seven". The first trial was that of Lonnie McLucas, the only person who physically took part in the killing who refused to plead guilty. In fact, McLucas had confessed to shooting Rackley, but nonetheless chose to go to trial. Jury selection began in May 1970. The case and trial were already a national cause célèbre among critics of the Nixon administration, and especially among those hostile to the actions of the FBI. Under the Bureau's then-secret "Counter-Intelligence Program" (COINTELPRO), FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had ordered his agents to disrupt, discredit, or otherwise neutralize radical groups like the Panthers. Hostility between groups organizing political dissent and the Bureau was, by the time of the trials, at a fever pitch. Hostility from the left was also directed at the two Panthers cooperating with the prosecutors. Sams in particular was accused of being an informant, and lying to implicate Seale for personal benefit. In the days leading up to a rally on May Day 1970, thousands of supporters of the Panthers arrived in New Haven individually and in organized groups. They were housed and fed by community organizations and by sympathetic Yale students in their dormitory rooms. The Yale college dining halls provided basic meals for everyone. Protesters met daily en masse on the New Haven Green across the street from the Courthouse (and one hundred yards from Yale's main gate). On May Day there was a rally on the Green, featuring speakers including Jean Genet, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and John Froines (an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon). Teach-ins and other events were also held in the colleges themselves. Towards midnight on May 1, two bombs exploded in Yale's Ingalls Rink, where a concert was being held in conjunction with the protests.[4] Although the rink was damaged, no one was injured, and no culprit was identified.[4] Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin stated, "All of us conspired to bring on this tragedy by law enforcement agencies by their illegal acts against the Panthers, and the rest of us by our immoral silence in front of these acts," while Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. issued the statement, "I personally want to say that I'm appalled and ashamed that things should have come to such a pass that I am skeptical of the ability of a Black revolutionary to receive a fair trial anywhere in the U.S." Brewster's generally sympathetic tone enraged many of the university's older, more conservative alumni, heightening tensions within the school community. As tensions mounted, Yale officials sought to avoid deeper unrest and to deflect the real possibility of riots or violent student demonstrations. Sam Chauncey has been credited with winning tactical management on behalf of the administration to quell anxiety among law enforcement and New Haven's citizens, while Kurt Schmoke, a future Rhodes Scholar, mayor of Baltimore, MD and Dean of Howard University School of Law, has received kudos as undergraduate spokesman to the faculty during some of the protest's tensest moments. Ralph Dawson, a classmate of Schmoke's, figured prominently as moderator of the Black Student Alliance at Yale (BSAY). In the end, compromises between the administration and the students - and, primarily, urgent calls for nonviolence from Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers themselves - quashed the possibility of violence. While Yale (and many other colleges) went "on strike" from May Day until the end of the term, like most schools it was not actually "shut down". Classes were made "voluntarily optional" for the time and students were graded "Pass/Fail" for the work done up to then. Trial of McLucas Black Panther trial sketch...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pen, Pencil, Paper

A Picturesque 1945 Landscape Watercolor of Calais, Vermont, The Artist's Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, Picturesque 1945 Landscape Watercolor of Calais, Vermont, The Artist's Studio, by noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). For many years, Haydon and his wif...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Untitled, Pastel on Paper, Black Colour by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sakti Burman Untitled - 11 x 9 inches ( Unframed Size ) Pastel on Paper , 2012 Born : 1935 Kolkata Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole N...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Scholar, Etching, Bezalel School, Palestine
By Meir Gur-Arie
Located in Surfside, FL
Meir Gur Arieh (1891-1951) studied in Bezalel from 1909-1911. He was a teacher of painting and ivory carving from 1911-1929. In 1923 he established, with Raban, the "Studio for Ind...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Etching

Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in ink lower center Provenance: Charlotte Bergman, noted collector and patron of Walkowitz. See photo for additional information.
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen

Fauvist Lying Nude - Original charcoals drawing, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Fauvist Lying Nude Original charcoal drawing Stamp signature Stamp of the artist on the back On wove paper 48 x 36 cm (c 18 x 14 inches) Excellent con...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Colorful Irish Contemporary Abstract Painting Sailing Boat on Blue Waters
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sailing Boat on the Sea by Paddy McCormack (Irish, contemporary) signed watercolour on canvas 12 x 16 inches unframed provenance: private collector, UK The painting is in very good a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Seated and Kneeling Female Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Ladies Sketch French School, circa 1960's chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed size: 18.75 x 12 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: private c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk, Pastel

Design for Modernist Brutalist Institute III mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
To see our other Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller"; you can also search for other drawings by this artist. V A Hards...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Vue des Invalides
Located in PARIS, FR
Watercolor on charcoal lines Signed L.V lower right Provenance: - Belgium, Private collection.
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Lovely Country House Pastel, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 20th Century Pastel on paper Sight: 21 1/2 x 31 in. Framed: 24 1/4 x 34 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. Signed lower left
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

St Mary’s Church, Chirk, Watercolour Stained Glass Window Design, Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of watercolour stained glass designs from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Sven Berlin watercolour drawing of a maiden head, British, Mid Century artist
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999) Maiden head Mixed media 5.3/4 x 3.5/8 in. (14.7 x 9.3 cm.) Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th September 1911...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media

Costume for Aida - Tempera and Watercolor - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for Aida is a painting in tempera and watercolor on brownish paper realized in 1920 ca. by an Anonymous Italian artist of the early 20th Century. In very good condition. Th...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Tempera, Watercolor

Ancient City - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient City is a drawing realized in the Early 20th Century by an unknown french master. Pencil on paper. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes mast...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Self Portrait, Charcoal on Paper, 20th Century British Drawing
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (11.5 x 10.75 cm) Mounted with a contemporary style frame This is a somewhat haunting self-portrait by William Dring, crafted in charcoal. Here, Dring presents himself through dark shadow and bright highlights, looking out directly at the viewer with a serious gaze. Although the Dring has been economical in the use of his marks we are still given plenty of information and can identify the energy in which the strokes of charcoal must have been placed onto the surface. William Dring Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

V A Hards: 'Design for A Departmental Store' Mid Century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
To see our other Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." V A Hards (British, c. 193...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Early Horses X, Charcoal Drawing, Brown, Black by Padmashree Sunil Das"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Early Horses X - 34 x 20.75 inches (unframed size) Charcoal on paper ( Framed & Delivered ) Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painters and rose t...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Study, Male Legs)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model (Study, Male Legs) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well exe...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled (Trees)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor on paper by American modernist Charles E. Burchfield, created in 1916. This work comes in an archival frame presentation and has been authenticated by the Bur...
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1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Four Gloucestershire Cottages, pencil sketch by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973) Four Gloucestershire Cottages Pencil sketch 28 x 38 cm Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the m...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Mexican House with Porch
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 . She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants . She is one of the painters of the School of Paris . Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937. Elle suivit les...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Sven Berlin, modern British, 'Crazy horse', watercolour and gouache
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999) Crazy horse Watercolour and gouache Signed and dated `SVEN ‘1980’ (lower right) 21./14 x 14.7/8 in. (54 x 37.8 cm.) (47)...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

The Girlish - Drawing Hubert Yencesse - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
The Girlish is a drawing realized by Hubert Yencesse in 1955. Pencil on paper. Good condition.  Beautiful drawing with soft pencil strokes.
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Reginald Marsh "Brooklyn Bridge" NYC Modernism WPA Mid-Century Watercolor Modern
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh "Brooklyn Bridge" NYC Modernism WPA Mid-Century Watercolor Modern Reginald Marsh (American, 1898-1954) Brooklyn Bridge, 1940, Signed and dated Reginald Marsh May 1940 (lr), Watercolor over traces of pencil on paper , 15 x 22 inches sight. Reginald Marsh was born in Paris, France in 1898, the child of artist parents. He was born over a small cafe on Paris' Left Bank. He was brought to the United States in 1900 and was drawing before he was three. He studied art at Yale University and the Art Students League, during which time he worked primarily as an illustrator for New York newspapers and magazines. After studying in Paris in 1925 and 1926, he turned seriously to painting. In 1929 he was introduced to the egg-tempera medium, which he used extensively the rest of his life. Marsh's gusto for painting the bottom crust of society contrasted curiously with his background. His parents, both well-known artists, were steeped in academic traditions. He attended Lawrenceville Academy and Yale; perhaps this elite background made it possible to paint the earthy people he did with a journalist's objectivity. An admirer of Rubens and Delacroix, he disliked modernist art; indeed, his lifelong preoccupation was with people - enjoying themselves at beaches, at amusement parks, or on crowded city streets. Marsh was a second-generation Ash Can School painter and printmaker, best known as an urban regionalist. He spent his days sketching in small notebooks...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Dessin préparatoire
Located in PARIS, FR
Preparatory pencil and acrylic drawing on kraft paper measuring 98 x 78 cm for a ceramic fresco Pièce Unique
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Pencil

MOMA Exhibited Watercolor by Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, "Tourists in Taxco"
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Titled "Tourists in Taxco", the watercolor was exhibited at the M...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

A Striking Modern 1946 Vermont Studio Scene, Standing Female Model in a Doorway
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking Modern 1946 Vermont Studio Scene of a Standing Female Model in a Doorway by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a finely executed portrait of t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Ink

A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model, Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s charco...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Paper

Man with Cylinder - Drawing by Léon Morel-Fatio - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man with Cylinder is a drawing in pencil on creamy colored paper, realized by French painter Léon Morel-Fatio (1810-1871) in the 19th Century. Monogrammed in red on the lower. appl...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper

Israeli Modernist Old City Jerusalem Landscape Folk Art Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
In this piece the artist choice of colors is vibrant, and there is minimal blending of them. The artist takes a naive, Folk Art approach at rendering the subject simplifying the figu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Two in the supermarket. 2023, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Two in the supermarket 2023, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm Ansis Butnors (1977) Education: J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996. Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department ...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Untitled, Figurative, Pastel on Paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury : Untitled Pastel on Envelop ; 7 x 5 inches ; 2016 Signed by the Artist. Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury ha...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a China Ink Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a cream colored paper. ...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Ink

"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3, " Watercolor and Ink signed by Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3" is an original ink and watercolor piece on cream paper by Abraham Walkowitz. The artist signed the piece in the lower center. The drawing depicts Isadora ...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Posing Figure - Drawing - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Figure is a drawing realized in 1978 by an unknown artist. Penc on paper. Monogrammed and dated on the lower. The state of preservation is good. The artwork is represented...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Paper

Flight to Egypt
By Anna Walinska
Located in New York, NY
Oil on paper. Signed and dated 'Walinska 57' (lower left). image size 20 x 13 1/2 in. framed size 28 1/3 x 22 1/2 inches Provenance Martha Jackson Gallery Anderson Gallery, Buffalo...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil

'Portrait of a Young Navajo', Native American, Arizona, California Woman artist
By Victoria Creech Stewart
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Creech PSWC' and created circa 1975 A compelling pastel study showing the subject dressed in brightly-colored ceremonial robes and gazing past the viewer. An eleg...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

A Charming 1930s Charcoal Study of Three Young Men in a Lake House Window
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1930s Charcoal Study of Three Young Men in a Lake House Window by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Most likely completed during the summer mont...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Design for Modernist Brutalist Institute II mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
To see our other Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller"; you can also search for other drawings by this artist. V A Hards...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Italian Modernist Abstract Drawing, Gestural Lines
By Agostino Ferrari
Located in Surfside, FL
Agostino Ferrari was born in Milan on 9 November 1938. He commenced his career as as professional artist in 1959. In 1961 he held his first one-man show at the Galleria Pater, in Mil...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Conté, Charcoal, Crayon, Mixed Media

A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well exe...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Russian Judaica Shtetl Klezmer Musicians
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel or Tempera on paper. Judaica Shtetl scene of village. Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins. h...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Tempera

Landscape Abstraction
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Initialed lower left Framed dimensions: 16 x 18 7/8 inches Provenance The artist; Collection of Henry Dubin, Philadelphia until 2018 Exhibitions Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Living Color Modern Life: Hugh Henry Breckenridge and Arthur B. Carles, October 5-November 2, 2018. The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant colorist and an extraordinarily innovative painter. Though Carles trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, soaking up the more conservative teaching of William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz, he was deeply influenced by the avant-garde art scene in Paris during his first trip there in 1905. In 1907, Carles won the prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to return to Paris for several more years. This experience had a profound impact on Carles as an artist; he was extremely affected by modern French painting, especially the work of Cezanne and Matisse, and by the time Carles returned home to Philadelphia in 1912, he was a confirmed modernist. This small landscape sketch was probably painted early during Carles's career, and yet, it already reveals his strong interest in abstraction. Indeed, Landscape Abstraction demonstrates both his daring exploration of lyrical color harmonies as well as his interest in two-dimensional surface design. Painted loosely in the spontaneous medium of watercolor, Carles used thin washes and delicate pools of paint to suggest the foreground area and surrounding trees. His color palette is rich and expressive, ranging from pale greens and blues to deep red, yellow, and even purple. In addition to his remarkable career as an artist, Carles was also an incredibly gifted teacher. He taught at PAFA from 1917 to 1925 and had a very deep impact on a number of his students such as Morris Blackburn, Quita Brodhead, and Jane Piper...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Ducks original pen and ink sketch Derrick Sayer for Beverley Nichols Cats ABC
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Derrick Latimer Sayer (British: 1917-1992) Ducks for Beverly Nichols...
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1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers
Located in New York, NY
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Brick Layers House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939 ...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Godi Godi - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Godi Godi is a charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

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